Your analogy is actually somewhat close to reality, albeit disgusting. You're just off by orders of magnitude (and piss isn't poisonous.)
Second hand smoke does give off carcinogens. The point is that they are much, much less than what is being inhaled by the smoker. So much less that you'd have to lock yourself in a small smoke filled room for hours to get the same effect of smoking a cigarette. Still, that doesn't mean that prolonged exposure to a substance in very small quantities is the same as a short and potent dose. Dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous if you ingest extremely large quantities, but is perfectly safe if you limit yourself to about 8 cups a day.
What's amazing is your inability to understand that the smoke getting injected into the smoker's lungs is more potent than the smoke by-product puffed and diffused into the air.
To whatever morons labeled the parent as flamebait and troll, "Bullshit" is the name of a TV show on Showtime. The link points to the episode description on Showtime's website. Apparently, Showtime is blocking access from outside the USA. Sad. Here's another link with some facts: http://www.davehitt.com/facts/
The difference is that there's hard evidence that Cyanide is unhealthy. There is no evidence that second-hand smoke is unhealthy. Annoying, smelling, and dirty, yes. But, it's not dangerous even after prolonged exposure.
Take a look at the graph of cases (in white) where the ordinance did not apply. There's a reduction in 2003. Just because there's a drop doesn't mean it's not coincidental.
While it's true that many of the carcinogens are part of the combustion process, this is still NOT a "safe" cigarette.
Tobacco has LOTS and LOTS of carcinogens that are passed to the smoker. It's been so far impossible to eliminate them all.
Tobacco's
toxic properties have been well known. How does Marijuana compare?
Get the WAV files from, the Bittorrent and encode them yourself. Quite frankly, I don't trust other people to encode MP3s properly. I use the recommended LAME from Hydrogen Audio.
Too bad there isn't an API for this so that people could try to extend this to other applications. How about using the video card to make MP3 files or a souped up version of WinRAR that uses your video card to compress/decopmpress faster.
You don't think Dolby is a monopoly? What other sound formats are there besides DTS? Almost every DVD released has at minimum one AC3 track. Check your facts.
What do you mean 3rd part players are impossible? Are you talking about the Chinese knockoff DVD players that don't pay licensing or are you talking about supporting other formats? There's a Philips DVD player for approx. $69 that will play DIVX and most XVID AVI files. Just about every modern DVD player also plays picture cds and cds full of jpegs. What's the problem?
How is this different than mandating all current DVD player support Dolby Digital? This doesn't preclude the standard from accepting other open source codecs. Market forces have pretty much made DTS decoding standard in all current players.
It just got too scary for me when my whole PC got infested with spyware. It's true that I didn't have IE patched to the abosulte latest version. However, there's exploits coming out all the time and the time to patch is way too long. I'm glad I did switch and I doubt I'd go back. Firefox's popup filter does everything better than IE with the google toolbar. Adblock is the best comprimise (so far) for simplicity and effective ad blocking.
I admit that the features in SP2 sound promising, but I'm already too comfortable with Firefox.
Unpractical? Anyway, quantum cryptography IS one time pads with a transmission method that ensures the key is delivered without being intercepted. Once the key is received, the encrypted data can be sent via any unsecured medium.
I have to be worried about Apple's grand scheme to make money by locking me into iTunes? It's the same argument for DVD region encryption. "We'll lose money if we don't block DVDs from other parts of the world." Since when do my rights depend on your business plan?
...was nothing. Ignore it. Who cares? No one is going to buy Real's crappy encoded format music. Apple looks like the bad guy by telling people what to do with hardware they purchased. Replace Real with some guy from Finland and ".rm" with ".ogg" format and see if you still agree.
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Your analogy is actually somewhat close to reality, albeit disgusting. You're just off by orders of magnitude (and piss isn't poisonous.)
Second hand smoke does give off carcinogens. The point is that they are much, much less than what is being inhaled by the smoker. So much less that you'd have to lock yourself in a small smoke filled room for hours to get the same effect of smoking a cigarette. Still, that doesn't mean that prolonged exposure to a substance in very small quantities is the same as a short and potent dose. Dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous if you ingest extremely large quantities, but is perfectly safe if you limit yourself to about 8 cups a day.
It stayed in the nicotine, because nicotine IS A CARCINOGEN.
What's amazing is your inability to understand that the smoke getting injected into the smoker's lungs is more potent than the smoke by-product puffed and diffused into the air.
To whatever morons labeled the parent as flamebait and troll, "Bullshit" is the name of a TV show on Showtime. The link points to the episode description on Showtime's website. Apparently, Showtime is blocking access from outside the USA. Sad. Here's another link with some facts: http://www.davehitt.com/facts/
The difference is that there's hard evidence that Cyanide is unhealthy. There is no evidence that second-hand smoke is unhealthy. Annoying, smelling, and dirty, yes. But, it's not dangerous even after prolonged exposure.
Take a look at the graph of cases (in white) where the ordinance did not apply. There's a reduction in 2003. Just because there's a drop doesn't mean it's not coincidental.
Take a guess where the nicotine came from, genius.
> You do alot more than piss off the non-smokers, you kill them. Please stop.
Bullshit.
While it's true that many of the carcinogens are part of the combustion process, this is still NOT a "safe" cigarette. Tobacco has LOTS and LOTS of carcinogens that are passed to the smoker. It's been so far impossible to eliminate them all.
Tobacco's toxic properties have been well known. How does Marijuana compare?
Two wrongs sometimes do make a right.
Wow. No description of what the hell this thing is, but he does give links to find out and they're both slashdotted.
Can the editors please institute a policy that they only accept/post stories that are adequately descriptive?
Get the WAV files from, the Bittorrent and encode them yourself. Quite frankly, I don't trust other people to encode MP3s properly. I use the recommended LAME from Hydrogen Audio.
Too bad there isn't an API for this so that people could try to extend this to other applications. How about using the video card to make MP3 files or a souped up version of WinRAR that uses your video card to compress/decopmpress faster.
It is possible to create gapless MP3s and only Winamp (with a plugin) and Foobar2000 can play them back. If WMP could do it, I'd stick with it.
You don't think Dolby is a monopoly? What other sound formats are there besides DTS? Almost every DVD released has at minimum one AC3 track. Check your facts.
What do you mean 3rd part players are impossible? Are you talking about the Chinese knockoff DVD players that don't pay licensing or are you talking about supporting other formats? There's a Philips DVD player for approx. $69 that will play DIVX and most XVID AVI files. Just about every modern DVD player also plays picture cds and cds full of jpegs. What's the problem?
How is this different than mandating all current DVD player support Dolby Digital? This doesn't preclude the standard from accepting other open source codecs. Market forces have pretty much made DTS decoding standard in all current players.
You could say the same thing about the arts. Having an education isn't a guarantee.
The 3DES key is still not as strong as a OTP. In fact, nothing is.
Sorry if this is an old issue, but DirectX 9.0 3D card? Aren't they using OpenGL?
It just got too scary for me when my whole PC got infested with spyware. It's true that I didn't have IE patched to the abosulte latest version. However, there's exploits coming out all the time and the time to patch is way too long. I'm glad I did switch and I doubt I'd go back. Firefox's popup filter does everything better than IE with the google toolbar. Adblock is the best comprimise (so far) for simplicity and effective ad blocking.
I admit that the features in SP2 sound promising, but I'm already too comfortable with Firefox.
Unpractical? Anyway, quantum cryptography IS one time pads with a transmission method that ensures the key is delivered without being intercepted. Once the key is received, the encrypted data can be sent via any unsecured medium.
If they invoke the DMCA, they're telling me that I can't buy any music from Real.
I have to be worried about Apple's grand scheme to make money by locking me into iTunes? It's the same argument for DVD region encryption. "We'll lose money if we don't block DVDs from other parts of the world." Since when do my rights depend on your business plan?
...was nothing. Ignore it. Who cares? No one is going to buy Real's crappy encoded format music. Apple looks like the bad guy by telling people what to do with hardware they purchased. Replace Real with some guy from Finland and ".rm" with ".ogg" format and see if you still agree.